Political Quotes

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war ...

[It is not] the poet's business to use verse as an advanced form of rhetoric, nor to give to politic...

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and...

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the futu...

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

A Party member is expected to have no private emotions and no respites from enthusiasm. He is suppos...

The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular id...

No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too h...

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, ...

Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and ...

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, rule...

The president has kept all the promises he intended to keep.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitution...

At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, in...

It is only on the battlefield of ideas that the best ones can be recognized and ultimately prevail. ...

We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic," not blind.

When we support or vote for candidates outside the two major political parties we are immediately le...

You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you c...

The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis ...

I've praised Obama's record on same-sex equality as enthusiastically as anyone: it's one area where ...

A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' ...

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

Prepare yourself for some bad news: Ronald Reagan’s library just burned down. Both books were destro...

A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market ex...

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an indepen...

All I'm saying is that there are many different kinds of political theatre and many plays I greatly ...

A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not j...

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as peo...

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so tha...

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operati...

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and allelse, now concerns itself no mo...

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heav...

Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussi...

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-int...

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mand...

If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will fac...

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as w...

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

The principle that a central bank, charged with controlling inflation, should be independent from th...

I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn som...

For any ranked society, whether a chiefdom or a state, one thus has to ask, why do the commoners tol...

This communist talk is so confusing

I do think the public want to see politicians acting in a different way. What's brought young people...

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its conten...

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our prac...

My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into...

Carol says we speak with one voice. What she doesn't say is that voice belongs to HER. There's only ...

Carol says we speak with one voice. What she doesn't say is that voice belongs to HER. There's only ...

Political courage requires clarity.

Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney genera...

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable be...

The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the n...

Faith is not a political strategy and should not be a political strategy. If it is being used as a t...

Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever th...

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on t...

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness...

It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.

If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real t...

The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between t...

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function...

It is not good for man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species. A world from...

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its ...

A man who lives a part, not to others but alone, is exposed to obvious psychological dangers. In its...

I have some bad news. Bjork cannot be here tonight. She was trying on her Oscar dress and Dick Chene...

And this, this, is their genius. Conservatives are not looking to make education more rigorous and i...

If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicki...

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in politi...

Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.

If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transfor...

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functiona...

Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and pol...

I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and po...

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular new...

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage ...

The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regime...

Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for th...

If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person ...

In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political...

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but...

Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian on...

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowled...

When the Russian delegate this summer indicated the Soviet Union's interest in sending medical equip...

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and the...

Hardcore groups were singing songs about Ronald Reagan. I wasn't interested in this and preferred to...

Pity the nation whose people are sheep,and whose shepherds mislead them.Pity the nation whose leader...

The ultimate test of the value of a political system is whether it helps that society to establish c...

Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth Internat...

The strangeness of the Barrayaran government system with all its unwritten customs, pressed on Corde...

Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it.